Principal Consultant- Application Development

About This Job

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ThoughtWorks is hunting for Principal Technologists who really know how to influence and take total responsibility on client engagements. We are company that is synonymous with innovation in the delivery of complex software. We are company that is passionate about collaboration. We help our clients to reduce the risk of their projects failing. We've been at the forefront of innovation around Agile methods for a long time now. Whether it's finding ways to elicit user requirements, introducing story walls, making distributed Agile a reality or introducing the concept of self-managed teams to our clients, we find ways to help technology deliver real business value. Add to this our recognition as innovators in the technical world and you'll start to see why working here is refreshingly different.

Our Mission

ThoughtWorks' vision is quite simple. To better humanity through software, and help create a more socially and economically just world. We are dedicated to the art of software delivery, by keeping it lightweight, agile and open-source. Our clients are organisations with ambitious missions, where we deliver complex enterprise systems to help them solve their toughest business problems.

Your Mission

Directly guide the technical strategy for our clients

Build out a new capability within ThoughtWorks - perhaps for Mobile, Big Data or DevOps

Explore ways to improve our business relevance for customers

Speak at conferences, get published

Influence and shape our client portfolio

What's your background?

You have significant experience (15+ years) and a thorough understanding of different architectures, tools & languages

You can guide consulting clients through today's significant technical challenges

You have the credibility and gravitas to operate to work closely with our demand team on pre-sales

You are capable of coding and beginning an implementation to get a project off the ground

You act as an advisor to C-level executives to define and deliver the technical strategy

You love coding. Even if your recent roles have taken you away from being as hands-on

as you might like, you've no doubt found other ways to keep your coding skills from

getting too rusty and we expect that you'll have had exposure to recent technologies

You have a rich breadth of experience and are equally comfortable talking financial projections or business process modelling as you are advocating for TDD

You have experience with languages such as Core Java, Java EE, C#, Ruby on Rails,Android, iOS, Python, Scala or Clojure.

You really understand the business context of the challenges that organisations face and

distinguish yourself in the way you articulate this with clients to create and deliver robust, scalable, elegant, flexible and relevant software solutions that truly transform industries

Leadership is not something you do from far away, you get the importance of taking people with you along the journey and are able to influence and coach those around you to orchestrate team success

What you believe

That Continuous Development is a tool of business, not just IT teams

That lean start-up techniques bring flexibility to the development process

That new challenges are coming in the space of disruptive technology such as hardware, social and privacy issues and data

The Role

There's no typical day or engagement for our Principal Consultants. You might spend a few weeks with a new client or be full-time on delivery project for 12 months. It's varied and you thrive on these different challenges. Our teams work on a huge variety of projects; you could be helping a retail giant rethink their technology strategy one day and working on an app that reunites families in case of emergencies the .We work sometime on customer site providing a mix of delivery and consulting services, so you'll be flexible about travel, We do everything we can to make life here as easy as possible and do our best to take people's personal situations into account.

We employ an autonomous, self-management work culture, with very little hierarchy. This approach encourages people to take ownership and accountability, and to be curious. It requires a "trust first" attitude, which supports a creative mindset and promotes innovation through disruptive thinking.

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